Robert L. Benney, a prolific painter and illustrator who belonged to the vanishing breed of American combat artists, died on May 14 in Boston. He was 97 and had recently moved to Boston from Manhattan. Mr. Benney was widely shown, starting with an exhibition of theater drawings at the Museum of the City of New York in 1933. His portrait (showing 500 of 2977 characters).

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